The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-08-25

Mr.. L. P. Milligan, of Sons of Lib
erty notorlety in Indiana during the
war, has recently been interviewed" "
If there is anything an old Copper
head dotes on, it is the attempt to
teach the idea that he was quite pop
ular in his meanness during the war.
The fact that he loves to prate of his
meanness, is evidence that he was
mean, and still feels mean over it.
This Milligan was a traitor, of the
Copperhead type, and in company
with several others was tried by
Military Commission and sentenced to
death. His guilty neck was saved
through the efforts of Gov. Morton,
who had some DOUBTS as to the legal
ity OF. his trial. Mr.. Milligan and his
fellow conspirators had the same OBJ
ject in view as the Knights Of the
Golden Circle in Ohio, and branches
of which met in jackson County.
The object was to seize the State Gov
ernments Of Ohio and Indiana, assas-
sinate the State officers, release the
Rebel prisoners, strike terror into the
people, then form a junction with the
Southern army and declare not only
a Southern, but Northwestern Con-
federacy. Meetings were frequently
held in this county, in several town
ships, notably in Scioto, Liberty,
Jackson, Milton, and the upper end
Of Lick. The attendants at these
meetings were just as reasonable,
vicious, and unrelenting as Champ
Ferguson's guerillas, but they had one
quality which the Government profit
ed by-they were too cowardly to
fight, and would retreat precipitately
at the very shadow of Union soldier.
The significant feature about this Or
ganization was that it represented the
Democratic party, and was principally
composed of Democratic leaders. We
know some Of its members in Jackson
County, but they were not dangerous,
and their record is Of little moment.
The organization was officered like an
army, but never mustered up courage
to make a single outbreak except at
Fort Fizzle, in Holmes County. The
fact that kept them down, and pro-
tected the homes and property of SOL
diers from the torch Of the incendiary,
was that enough Union men were left
at home to put down an outbreak, in
almost any locality in the State. To
say that the Democracy as a party
sympathized with the Confederacy,
will make a Democrat very angry.
Why? Simply and solely because
that party as party was just as loyal
to Jeff Davis in Ohio as it was in
South Carolina or Texas. There is
no call for perverting history in the
name of sectional harmony, or any
other kind Of harmony. If the old
Copperheads would permit their rec
ord to remain hidden as far as posi-
BILE, it would not be dragged out by
the other side. This old fellow Milli-
gan claims that a part Of the commits
sion that tried him wanted to clear
him. The fact was they were as
unit for hanging him, and it ought to
have been done. While the soldiers
were at the front, fighting Democrats,
these precious villains were at home,
plotting at midnight, the destruction
Of the Union armies through the ac-
ton of Democrats in the rear. The
cowardice of the force in the rear
saved the Union armies some annoy
ance, and saved some lives. Such is
the record some Of our Democratic
friends would attempt to cover by the
word loyalty. Men in Jackson County
lifted up their rusty butcher-knives,
placed their hands on their butternut
pins, and swore, by the eternal and
Old Hickory, that no Yankee should
coerce a State without walking over
their dead bodies. Now these same